James Thurber (1894–1961)
Auteur van Het Verborgen Leven van Walter Mitty en andere verhalen
Over de Auteur
Born in Columbus, Ohio, Thurber was blinded in one eye in a childhood accident. He attended Ohio State University but left without earning a degree. In 1925 he moved to New York City, where he joined the staff of the New Yorker in 1927 at the urging of his friend E. B. White. For the rest of his toon meer lifetime, Thurber contributed to the magazine his highly individual pieces and those strange, wry, and disturbing pen-and-ink drawings of "huge, resigned dogs, the determined and sometimes frightening women, the globular men who try so hard to think so unsuccessfully." The period from 1925, when the New Yorker was founded, until the death of its creator-editor, Harold Ross, in 1951, was described by Thurber in delicious and absorbing detail in The Years with Ross (1959). Of his two great talents, Thurber preferred to think of himself primarily as a writer, illustrating his own books. He published "fables" in the style of Aesop (see Vol. 2) and La Fontaine (see Vol. 2)---usually with a "barbed tip of contemporary significance"---children's books, several plays (two Broadway hits, one successful musical revue), and endless satires and parodies in short stories or full-length works. "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," included in My World---and Welcome to It (1942), is probably his best-known story and continues to be frequently anthologized. T. S. Eliot described Thurber's work as "a form of humor which is also a way of saying something serious." (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Werken van James Thurber
Thurber's men, women, and dogs, a book of drawings with a preface by Dorothy Parker (1943) 190 exemplaren
Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor, and Himself (1989) — Auteur — 125 exemplaren
People Have More Fun Than Anybody: A Centennial Celebration Of Drawings And Writings (1994) 58 exemplaren
Thurber and Company: A New Collection of Drawings of Male and Female Animals Including the Human (1966) 49 exemplaren
Vintage Thurber: A Selection of the Best Writings and Drawings of James Thurber: v. 2 (1963) 40 exemplaren
Vintage Thurber: A Selection of the Best Writings and Drawings of James Thurber:Two Volume Set (1974) 39 exemplaren
Selected Shorts: Timeless Classics (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2005) 38 exemplaren
Vintage Thurber: A Selection of the Best Writings and Drawings of James Thurber: v. 1 (1963) 35 exemplaren
The James Thurber Audio Collection: Fables and Selected Stories by James Thurber (2011) 10 exemplaren
Is Sex Necessary?, etc 3 exemplaren
The Wood Duck [short story] 3 exemplaren
Il più grand'uomo del mondo: racconti 3 exemplaren
Love Is A Funny Business (Quick Reader 126) 3 exemplaren
Interview with a Lemming [short story] 3 exemplaren
The Night the Bed Fell 3 exemplaren
The Little Girl and the Wolf {short story} 3 exemplaren
The Departure of Emma Inch {short story} 2 exemplaren
The Scotty Who Knew Too Much {short story' 2 exemplaren
A Thurber garland 2 exemplaren
A Thurber Carnival 2 exemplaren
Doc Marlowe [short story] 2 exemplaren
超級神學講座 [錄影資料] = SuperDoc (Super Doctrine) seminar 2 exemplaren
My Life and Hard Times and Other Conversations 2 exemplaren
The years with Ross 2 exemplaren
Gezeichnete Parodien zu Balladen v. Friedrich Schiller, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sir Walter Scott u. Alfred Lord… 2 exemplaren
You Could Look It Up 2 exemplaren
My World---And Welcome to It 1 exemplaar
Secret Life Of Walter Mitty And Other Play 1 exemplaar
Thurber Carnival, Thw 1 exemplaar
13 האורלוגין 1 exemplaar
Further Fables of Our Times 1 exemplaar
Rare Antique GENIUS OF JAMES THURBER FOLIO SOCIETY Stories FICTION Humor COMICAL Fiction 1 exemplaar
Trzynaście zegarów 1 exemplaar
A Thurber Carnival (Playbill) [Vol 4 No 16] 1 exemplaar
De tretten ure 1 exemplaar
Memorable Quotations from James Thurber 1 exemplaar
The Rgurber Album 1 exemplaar
A Full Confession 1 exemplaar
My Life and Hard Times, etc 1 exemplaar
O cartaz de Mr. Martin 1 exemplaar
Favole per il nostro tempo 1 exemplaar
A Couple of Hamburgers {short story} 1 exemplaar
The Breaking Up of the Winships {short story} 1 exemplaar
The Shrike and the Chipmunks {short story} 1 exemplaar
A Ride with Olympy {essay} 1 exemplaar
The Hound and the Bug 1 exemplaar
The Macbeth Murder Mystery 1 exemplaar
The Secret Life of James Thurber {essay} 1 exemplaar
Memoirs of a Drudge {essay} 1 exemplaar
The Lady on 142 {short story} 1 exemplaar
The Foolhardy Mouse and the Curious Cat 1 exemplaar
La notte degli spiriti e altre storie 1 exemplaar
James Thurber: The Life and Hard Times 1 exemplaar
Sælen der blev berømt og andre historier 1 exemplaar
[No title] 1 exemplaar
The Lady on the Bookcase 1 exemplaar
The Great Quillow 1 exemplaar
Zehn goldene Regeln für das Zusammenleben mit 100 warnenden Beispielen / Der Hund, der die Leute biß. Und andere… (1996) 1 exemplaar
Thurbers Men Women & Dogs a Book of Drawings 1 exemplaar
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Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Medewerker — 706 exemplaren
Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture (1991) — Medewerker — 562 exemplaren
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Medewerker — 244 exemplaren
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Medewerker — 131 exemplaren
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball (1980) — Medewerker — 102 exemplaren
Cavalcade of comedy; 21 brilliant comedies from Jonson and Wycherley to Thurber and Coward (1953) — Medewerker — 96 exemplaren
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Medewerker — 81 exemplaren
The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Seven Unforgettable Stories (2002) — Medewerker — 77 exemplaren
Murder by the Book: Literary Mysteries from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1995) — Medewerker — 66 exemplaren
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1959) — Medewerker — 55 exemplaren
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 5: Community Responsibility (1969) — Medewerker — 30 exemplaren
Discovering Fiction Student's Book 1: A Reader of American Short Stories (2001) — Medewerker — 19 exemplaren
The Defective Detective: Mystery Parodies by the Great Humorists (1992) — Medewerker — 14 exemplaren
Pause to Wonder: Stories of the Marvelous , Mysterious and Strange (1944) — Medewerker — 12 exemplaren
Alexanders langes Leben, Stalins früher Tod und andere abwegige Geschichten. Erzählungen und Berichte aus… (1999) — Medewerker — 12 exemplaren
American Short Stories, Vol.5, The Twentieth Century (1957) — Auteur, sommige edities — 11 exemplaren
Amerikanische Kurzgeschichten (American Short Stories) (English and German Edition) (1956) — Medewerker — 9 exemplaren
Ten Years of Holiday: Selected by the Editors of Holiday Magazine (1956) — Medewerker — 8 exemplaren
Rex Lardner Selects the Best of Sports Fiction — Medewerker — 2 exemplaren
14 American Masterpieces Vol.1 — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
Eleven American Stories — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
Configurations: American Short Stories for the EFL Classroom, Advanced Level (1984) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
Al pie del acantilado — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
Behind the Wheel: Stories of Cars on Road and Track — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Thurber, James
- Officiële naam
- Thurber, James Grover
- Geboortedatum
- 1894-12-08
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1961-11-02
- Graflocatie
- Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- New York, New York, USA
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- complications from pneumonia
- Woonplaatsen
- Washington, D.C., USA
Paris, France
New York, New York, USA
Columbus, Ohio, USA - Opleiding
- Ohio State University
- Beroepen
- cartoonist
author
playwright
reporter
code clerk - Organisaties
- The New Yorker
U.S. Department of State - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Caldecott Medal (1944)
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